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Long Time Coming. Short Writings from Zimbabwe : Short Writings from Zimbabwe /

Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe's history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps no water, banks no money, hospitals no dr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Morris, Jane, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ascot, Bulawayo : 'amaBooks, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Arrested Development -- Sandisile Tshuma; The Awards Ceremony -- John Eppel; Bus Fare -- Julius Chingono; Bababulele -- John S. Read; The Chicken Bus -- Linda Msebele; The Cracked, Pink Lips of Rosie's Bridegroom -- Petina Gappah; Echoes of Silence -- Raisedon Baya; Hwange -- Andrew Pocock; Fiction -- Brian Chikwava; The First Lady's Yellow Shoes -- Peter Ncube; First Rain -- Judy Maposa; Innocence -- Ian Rowlands; Justice -- Wim Boswinkel; King of Bums -- Christopher Mlalazi; 10 Lanigan Avenue -- Mathew Chokuwenga; Passing Villages -- Anne Simone Hutton 
505 0 |a A Lazy Sunday Afternoon -- Monireh JassatLoving the Self -- Bhekilizwe Dube; Miss Parker and the Tugboat -- Bryony Rheam; Poetry is ... -- Ignatius T. Mabasa; Not Slaves to Fashion -- Mzana Mthimkhulu; The Pencil Test -- Diana Charsley; Pleasure -- Chaltone Tshabangu; And the Rains Came -- Pathisa Nyathi; Rain in July -- Fungai Rufaro Machirori; Rum and Still Waters -- Lloyd Robson; The Sadza Eaters (after Van Gogh) -- David Goodwin; Safari -- Owen Sheers; Six Pack -- Wame Molefhe; Some Kind of Madness -- Ignatius Mabasa; A Study in Blue -- Deon Marcus; Stampede -- Thabisani Ndlovu 
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